Lie September 29, 2020 · Remarks · Environment
“As far as the fires are concerned, you need forest management in addition to everything else, the forest floors are loaded up with trees, dead trees that are years old and they're like tinder and leaves and everything else. You drop a cigarette and the whole forest burns down. … But I also think we have to do better management of our forests. Every year I get the call. California is burning. California is burning. If that is cleaned, if that were, if you had forest management, good forest management, you wouldn't be getting those calls. You know, in Europe, they live their forest cities. They call forest cities. They maintain their forests. They manage their fires. I was with the head of a major country. It’s a forest city. He said, sir, we have trees that are far more, they ignite much easier than California. They shouldn't be that problem.”
- Said
- September 29, 2020
- Where
- Remarks
- Verdict
- Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
- Topic
- Environment
- Repeated
- 29 times in the Post’s database
- Source
- Washington Post claims database (claim ID 26006)